The wokes 100% won over hearts and minds. Not RATIONAL MINDS, mind you. They won over white women. Using their intersectional power base of minorities + white women, the wokes deployed their LGBT and Antifa shock troopers to bully the sheep who they couldn't manipulate and indoctrinate. Most people are selfish cowards who want to freeload off of the sacrifice of others. So it's difficult to get champions to stand up to the wokes. It's only now in 2022 that the tide is finally turning against them because of a barrage of headlines about them bullying their enemies, and major cultural powerhouses like Dave Chappelle turning against them.
The Right gains power by convincing the middle to take our side. Unfortunately the middle is full of selfish, cowardly sheeple. Being forced to be at their mercy is obnoxious, but it's the price you pay for democracy.
Well, LGBTs would be "assimilated", but in that assimilation, their cultural power would also be given a kind of permanency. They would no longer be activist, they'd merely be high on the totem pole. I would compare this to the jews. The jews took a top spot in American society and have just stayed there ever since. They stayed because their only major policy ask is support for Israel, which most Americans (on the Right at least) support on principle. I would say the jews represent an example of a powerful group that "won" and simply became entrenched and accepted.
The 2020 BLM riots did a lot of damage to the Left, just not enough. Trump went from 63m votes in 2016 to 74m in 2020. I never voted before 2020, when I voted for Trump. The only reason it wasn't a blowout in Trump's favor was because he was individually so controversial and the limp wristed normie cowards all turned against him because of his mean tweets. So Trump sort of threw a wrench into the normal backlash. Hopefully now in 2022, the backlash will begin to take shape more fully.
Intersectionality is a monster that the Left has been building for 60+ years. We will not slay it just after 1 chimpout like in 2020. But you can already see it is bleeding and weakening. TERFs versus Trans. The backlash against "defund the police." The fact that the Right at least is finally starting to lose its fear of criticizing black people (although they desperately want to recruit blacks to say it for them because they are still so deeply indoctrinated in racial bullshit). These things are the first cracks in the intersectional monster. The biggest wound of all - if it continues - is hispanics turning against the Left. If that becomes the reality, where hispanics are swing voters and not a Democrat lock, then holy shit, that is the death knell of intersectionality. The WHOLE POINT of intersectionality was to trick mexicans into thinking republicans were racist. Without the hispanics, the intersection coalition isn't even a majority! Blacks, LGBTs, and emotional white women are a recipe for permanent minority. Orthodox jews are also shifting to the Right. Asians are lagging, but they will follow once it is "safe". I do think we will see the destruction of intersectionality as a dominant political force in the next 10 years.
I agree with social power leading, not government power. Instead, government power should be designed to boost your social power goals towards voluntary incentives instead of coercive restrictions.
The Right did a lot of good given its limitations in the 80s and 90s, but by the 2000s the Republicans had grown fat and selfish, and betrayed their fiscal conservative to waste money. This did huge harm to the Right, resulting in the later Tea Party backlash which basically only existed to weaken Obama. John McCain fucked us on Obamacare repeal. Roberts and to a lesser extent Kavanaugh really fuck over the Right in the Supreme Court. The Right is best when it sticks to its principles, like that list of policy goals I linked in the KIA2 sub on reddit with the Senate Republican platform. Unfortunately the nature of US politics is that you need 60 votes in the Senate, so the result is that all policies end up as watered down compromises.
Most people are selfish cowards who want to freeload off of the sacrifice of others. So it's difficult to get champions to stand up to the wokes.
So... it did not have the consent of theh governed. If people are intimidated, that is not consent - though male feminists may disagree on that.
The Right gains power by convincing the middle to take our side. Unfortunately the middle is full of selfish, cowardly sheeple. Being forced to be at their mercy is obnoxious, but it's the price you pay for democracy.
lol @ you for unironically buying into claims that any Western country is a 'democracy'. They are oligarchies, which you can see by the fact that minority views are forced through and ordinary people have close to zero influence.
Well, LGBTs would be "assimilated", but in that assimilation, their cultural power would also be given a kind of permanency. They would no longer be activist, they'd merely be high on the totem pole. I would compare this to the jews. The jews took a top spot in American society and have just stayed there ever since. They stayed because their only major policy ask is support for Israel, which most Americans (on the Right at least) support on principle
They're economically powerful, which is a sort of personal power. But they're not powerful as Jews. Power means that you can ask for things that are against the majority of the people and the elites. It's like me starting a League Against Eating Your Own Shit and then claiming success because everyonee agrees with me.
The 2020 BLM riots did a lot of damage to the Left, just not enough. Trump went from 63m votes in 2016 to 74m in 2020.
How come the number of votes for the drooling, senile idiot increased even more though? You say mean tweets, or whatever. If getting your country burned down is not enough to make people turn on the left, nothing will.
The biggest wound of all - if it continues - is hispanics turning against the Left. If that becomes the reality, where hispanics are swing voters and not a Democrat lock, then holy shit, that is the death knell of intersectionality. The WHOLE POINT of intersectionality was to trick mexicans into thinking republicans were racist. Without the hispanics, the intersection coalition isn't even a majority! Blacks, LGBTs, and emotional white women are a recipe for permanent minority. Orthodox jews are also shifting to the Right
Orthodox Jews are already Right. Unfortunately, there are many who call themselves Jews as a cover but are just woke idiots.
You're fantasizing about permanent majorities. That simply doesn't happen. You will win and you will lose. But given the nature of the system, you will lose politically whether you win elections or lose them.
The Right did a lot of good given its limitations in the 80s and 90s
Winning one election after another, and ending up appointing 3 activists to the SCOTUS vs. 2 constitutionalists. Also, basically getting nothing done and continuing the social disintegration, which led us to where we are today.
The right is useless, but I'm open to hoping that it will do better.
John McCain fucked us on Obamacare repeal
You should be happy, because that would have had disastrous electorally - and you think elections matter.
Unfortunately the nature of US politics is that you need 60 votes in the Senate, so the result is that all policies end up as watered down compromises.
Like Patrick Deneen has written, both parties are liberal - one socially, the other economically. It's not as much that they are 'watered down compromises', but that they always advance liberalism. When GOP wins, they advance economic liberalism while doing nothing on the social front, when the Dems win, they advance social liberalism while doing nothing on the economic frornt.
You should be happy, because that would have had disastrous electorally - and you think elections matter.
Republicans somehow won elections before Obamacare. I don't know why you think they'd lose by repealing it. Obamacare is trash and was a net negative for many people.
both parties are liberal
If you think the Republican base is "liberal" then I'd like to see what your example of a non-liberal is.
You're fantasizing about permanent majorities
No, I'm pointing out that INTERSECTIONALISM will lead to a permanent minority status if trends continue, which is why the Democrats will be forced to ditch it and change their political strategy.
How come the number of votes for the drooling, senile idiot increased even more though? You say mean tweets
Yep. Mean tweets + the entire liberal media propagandizing about the mean tweets 24/7 for 4 years. Donald Trump handed his enemies endless ammo to lobby the normies against him.
Republicans somehow won elections before Obamacare. I don't know why you think they'd lose by repealing it. Obamacare is trash and was a net negative for many people.
Once it's there, people get mad when it's taken away.
If you think the Republican base is "liberal" then I'd like to see what your example of a non-liberal is.
The elites are liberal economically, which is what you call economically conservative.
No, I'm pointing out that INTERSECTIONALISM will lead to a permanent minority status if trends continue, which is why the Democrats will be forced to ditch it and change their political strategy.
I don't know man, you sound like you think you're operating on a level political playing field that does not have the wealthy and the elites putting their finger on the scale for intersectionality. At worst, they'll push their agenda through the bureaucracy and the courts, while protesting that they have no choice because "it is the law of the land".
When has 'the Right' ever stopped them?
Yep. Mean tweets + the entire liberal media propagandizing about the mean tweets 24/7 for 4 years. Donald Trump handed his enemies endless ammo to lobby the normies against him.
Oh come on. That's not how things work. People vote based on economics, not mean tweets. That is why I predicted that T would lose when everyone here said he would win.
The wokes 100% won over hearts and minds. Not RATIONAL MINDS, mind you. They won over white women. Using their intersectional power base of minorities + white women, the wokes deployed their LGBT and Antifa shock troopers to bully the sheep who they couldn't manipulate and indoctrinate. Most people are selfish cowards who want to freeload off of the sacrifice of others. So it's difficult to get champions to stand up to the wokes. It's only now in 2022 that the tide is finally turning against them because of a barrage of headlines about them bullying their enemies, and major cultural powerhouses like Dave Chappelle turning against them.
The Right gains power by convincing the middle to take our side. Unfortunately the middle is full of selfish, cowardly sheeple. Being forced to be at their mercy is obnoxious, but it's the price you pay for democracy.
Well, LGBTs would be "assimilated", but in that assimilation, their cultural power would also be given a kind of permanency. They would no longer be activist, they'd merely be high on the totem pole. I would compare this to the jews. The jews took a top spot in American society and have just stayed there ever since. They stayed because their only major policy ask is support for Israel, which most Americans (on the Right at least) support on principle. I would say the jews represent an example of a powerful group that "won" and simply became entrenched and accepted.
The 2020 BLM riots did a lot of damage to the Left, just not enough. Trump went from 63m votes in 2016 to 74m in 2020. I never voted before 2020, when I voted for Trump. The only reason it wasn't a blowout in Trump's favor was because he was individually so controversial and the limp wristed normie cowards all turned against him because of his mean tweets. So Trump sort of threw a wrench into the normal backlash. Hopefully now in 2022, the backlash will begin to take shape more fully.
Intersectionality is a monster that the Left has been building for 60+ years. We will not slay it just after 1 chimpout like in 2020. But you can already see it is bleeding and weakening. TERFs versus Trans. The backlash against "defund the police." The fact that the Right at least is finally starting to lose its fear of criticizing black people (although they desperately want to recruit blacks to say it for them because they are still so deeply indoctrinated in racial bullshit). These things are the first cracks in the intersectional monster. The biggest wound of all - if it continues - is hispanics turning against the Left. If that becomes the reality, where hispanics are swing voters and not a Democrat lock, then holy shit, that is the death knell of intersectionality. The WHOLE POINT of intersectionality was to trick mexicans into thinking republicans were racist. Without the hispanics, the intersection coalition isn't even a majority! Blacks, LGBTs, and emotional white women are a recipe for permanent minority. Orthodox jews are also shifting to the Right. Asians are lagging, but they will follow once it is "safe". I do think we will see the destruction of intersectionality as a dominant political force in the next 10 years.
I agree with social power leading, not government power. Instead, government power should be designed to boost your social power goals towards voluntary incentives instead of coercive restrictions.
The Right did a lot of good given its limitations in the 80s and 90s, but by the 2000s the Republicans had grown fat and selfish, and betrayed their fiscal conservative to waste money. This did huge harm to the Right, resulting in the later Tea Party backlash which basically only existed to weaken Obama. John McCain fucked us on Obamacare repeal. Roberts and to a lesser extent Kavanaugh really fuck over the Right in the Supreme Court. The Right is best when it sticks to its principles, like that list of policy goals I linked in the KIA2 sub on reddit with the Senate Republican platform. Unfortunately the nature of US politics is that you need 60 votes in the Senate, so the result is that all policies end up as watered down compromises.
So... it did not have the consent of theh governed. If people are intimidated, that is not consent - though male feminists may disagree on that.
lol @ you for unironically buying into claims that any Western country is a 'democracy'. They are oligarchies, which you can see by the fact that minority views are forced through and ordinary people have close to zero influence.
They're economically powerful, which is a sort of personal power. But they're not powerful as Jews. Power means that you can ask for things that are against the majority of the people and the elites. It's like me starting a League Against Eating Your Own Shit and then claiming success because everyonee agrees with me.
How come the number of votes for the drooling, senile idiot increased even more though? You say mean tweets, or whatever. If getting your country burned down is not enough to make people turn on the left, nothing will.
Orthodox Jews are already Right. Unfortunately, there are many who call themselves Jews as a cover but are just woke idiots.
You're fantasizing about permanent majorities. That simply doesn't happen. You will win and you will lose. But given the nature of the system, you will lose politically whether you win elections or lose them.
Winning one election after another, and ending up appointing 3 activists to the SCOTUS vs. 2 constitutionalists. Also, basically getting nothing done and continuing the social disintegration, which led us to where we are today.
The right is useless, but I'm open to hoping that it will do better.
You should be happy, because that would have had disastrous electorally - and you think elections matter.
Like Patrick Deneen has written, both parties are liberal - one socially, the other economically. It's not as much that they are 'watered down compromises', but that they always advance liberalism. When GOP wins, they advance economic liberalism while doing nothing on the social front, when the Dems win, they advance social liberalism while doing nothing on the economic frornt.
Republicans somehow won elections before Obamacare. I don't know why you think they'd lose by repealing it. Obamacare is trash and was a net negative for many people.
If you think the Republican base is "liberal" then I'd like to see what your example of a non-liberal is.
No, I'm pointing out that INTERSECTIONALISM will lead to a permanent minority status if trends continue, which is why the Democrats will be forced to ditch it and change their political strategy.
Yep. Mean tweets + the entire liberal media propagandizing about the mean tweets 24/7 for 4 years. Donald Trump handed his enemies endless ammo to lobby the normies against him.
Once it's there, people get mad when it's taken away.
The elites are liberal economically, which is what you call economically conservative.
I don't know man, you sound like you think you're operating on a level political playing field that does not have the wealthy and the elites putting their finger on the scale for intersectionality. At worst, they'll push their agenda through the bureaucracy and the courts, while protesting that they have no choice because "it is the law of the land".
When has 'the Right' ever stopped them?
Oh come on. That's not how things work. People vote based on economics, not mean tweets. That is why I predicted that T would lose when everyone here said he would win.
bruh have you ever met a Democrat-voting white woman?